The Count: A Prequel Novella to Omega Watchers Expanded Edition

They buried the door. They could not bury the count.Eleven years after her father's death, archaeologist Gabriella Russell has built her life around the lessons he left behind: observe everything, trust carefully, and never look back.When Dr. Manny Brotman assembles a team to investigate an anomalous site beneath the Rub' al Khali, Gabriella expects a difficult excavation. Instead, they uncover a sealed threshold, an impossible record, and evidence that humanity's oldest stories may be history.But someone knew they were coming.With powerful interests closing in, Gabriella must decide what to reveal, what to bury, and whether the expedition was truly her discovery - or the culmination of a plan set in motion years before.The Count is the prequel novella to The Omega Watchers: The Expanded Edition, a prophetic suspense series blending archaeological mystery, ancient secrets, spiritual conflict, and the unexplained.